Amitav Acharya is distinguished professor of international relations and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. He won American University's highest honor, the Scholar-Teacher Award, for 2020. Before tak...

Amitav Acharya is distinguished professor of international relations and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. He won American University's highest honor, the Scholar-Teacher Award, for 2020. Before taking up his current appointment in 2009, Acharya held professorships at University of Bristol, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and York University, Toronto, and was a Fellow at Harvard University's Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government.